Racial Injustice: A Personal Perspective

The reason why it is meaningful to me because as a young black male who witness/was part of the injustice to African American people in my lifetime I understand the struggles of living in America. It is a difficult as well as an unfortunate part of life where people judge you by the color of your skin, where certain groups of people of different color are put into a racial stereotyping profile instead of just trying to get know the individual, not believing the negative stereotypes about that affected group and seeing them as just a unique human being as they are. When I started to grow up I notice patterns of mostly white police officers hunting down black men and people of color and killing them in cold blood as if to say that their lives

Kaepernick 's decision to speak truth to power and the ensuing fallout illustrates something important.”(Joseph). From Joseph statement he points out how people quickly changed their mind and attitude when they see a black athlete like Colin Kaepernick standing for the people that are oppressed and not acting in a manner that they want him to behave which placed him in a situation where he is the center of attention where, Kaepernick have the power to speak the truth and not be afraid. Who benefits from this position would be Colin Kaepernick because of what he is doing with his national spotlight platform to raise awareness of the injustice of black people and people of color and people from all types of backgrounds are following suit and also standing up by making a point by raising awareness of injustice of black people and people of color. Also the media are benefitting from it because they have something to talk about dealing with something that is difficult for people to talk about when it comes to racism and knowing that it would generate more viewers. Who loses out the most from this position would be the people who questioned his patriotism because they can’t say it’s offensive because what he is doing is patriotic where he has the right to speak freely and